Finally.

Blogger is letting me upload images today...so here goes...

I wish that 3:20 were in the PM...

 Awesome, I'm surprised that worked.  This is the first page of a 24 hour comic I had to do for another class.  I've mentioned before that I'm really into comics, and this other class has only been making it worse.  I've tried to draw comics for a really long time, but as far as supplemental literature goes, there aren't a whole lot of books on creating comics.  I don't really want to include books like "How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way" simply because I didn't ever want to draw comics the Marvel way (I think it's Picasso who said "Raphael already paints like Raphael, so why should I?").  Will Eisner and Scott McCloud have, as far as I know, created some of the most comprehensive works on actually understanding the idea of comics, not just creating them.

"Stray," a comic I've been working on for some time now.

In so many ways, comics are a medium based in writing.  For me it takes a lot of the tedium out of immersing myself in a story.  That isn't to say I haven't come across works of fiction that haven't done the same thing, and there are many comics I walk away from saying "who cares?"  But just like some people happen to simply enjoy novels more than poetry, I enjoy reading and writing comics much more than any other creative media.  It might be the untapped creativity that lies hidden in it, it might be when a comic stacks up in literary value to written works or masterpieces of art and design, but it might be because it's a technique a lot of people write off as less valuable than other art.  Beware, though, attributing a subjective value to any work of art based on its media is a dangerous assumption to make.

Do comics mean anything to you?  Why/why not?  I'll keep thinking about why it is I draw comics...and I'll get back to you, Blogger.